Your May 25 editorial praising the town of Wells and the Legislature (LD 1259) for moving away from 287(g) contracts with ICE reflected a positive step in Maine (“Wells’ rejection of ICE should set the bar”).

But let’s not be complacent. ICE, in cahoots with CPB, HSI, DEA, ATF, FBI and others, will continue its arrests, detentions and removals in our state and all over the country.

ICE is breaking up families and terrifying communities. Ostensibly seeking violent criminals and those with final deportation orders, they’re also taking people legally documented to live here and those without criminal records. Often, ICE has done this without warrants and the government has made detainees disappear, against judicial orders.

Some were rounded up and removed because of tattoos. Some have been imprisoned for speaking out on behalf of civilians being starved and blown up by the tens of thousands in Gaza. The administration called this antisemitism; it’s not. When military transports flew to Guantanamo and when I saw the people locked up in El Salvador, I couldn’t help thinking about the boxcars in Europe in the 1940s.

Congress is considering Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” It proposes funds to increase ICE agents by unimaginable times over. Let’s all ask our Washington representatives to oppose this provision, especially our own Sen. Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Let’s contact them about ICE funding, even if we’ve already communicated with them on other matters before Congress.

David Agan
Wells